Small pond - advantages and disadvantages
In principle, you don't have to forego the relaxing and decorative advantages of a planted watering hole in a 10 m² garden or on the balcony. After all, you can design your own green realm any way you want. And with a pond of the right size, you can enhance it enormously. A small pond has a number of advantages:
- Adorable Lilliput character
- Design options with a love of detail
- Little effort to put on and maintain
- I.d. R. no building permit required
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As with so much in life, there are also disadvantages in addition to the advantages. For example:
- Some plants are not included in the design because of their size
- Ecological balance less easy to maintain
- No fish keeping possible
- Swimming pond function as good as impossible
How to create a small pond
To create a small pond at ground level, you can basically proceed as with a larger garden pond. The following steps are necessary:
- Mark shape
- Dig the soil
- Cover with protective fleece and pond liner
- Create a gravel bed
- Possibly. Install filter system
- planting
- Fill with water
In terms of shape, of course, you have freedom of design, but in a small pond, overly complex, curved contours can quickly appear exaggerated. A loose, round to oval, perhaps slightly 8-shaped shape usually has the most harmonious character.
When digging the ground, be careful not to hit any pipes. Because of this risk, the choice of place in a small garden close to the house is to be determined well in advance.
The pond hollow, which gets deeper in the middle, is covered with a protective fleece and a pond liner and a decorative and firming gravel bed is placed on it. Also consider whether you intend to integrate a filter system from the outset. Because especially with smaller ponds, a balanced, low-algae water environment is not necessarily created automatically a - this is due to the limited self-cleaning planting options and the increased Water heating potential.
In the finished, gravel-lined pond bed, you can already plant marsh plants for the deep water zone, such as calamus or Water lily best to plant before letting in the water. You can also plant edge plantings in the form of Chinese reeds or tree ferns later.
